Reviewing Your Poetry In the past few weeks, we asked readers and listeners to write structured poems using either parts of speech or syllables. Many of you wrote in with cinquains, haiku, and diamond poems. In this week's Everyday Grammar, we will r...
Poetry and Syllables Last week, we looked at two kinds of poems, the cinquain and the diamante or diamond poem. We explored parts of speech: nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs with poems. Many of you wrote to us and shared your poems. In today's Ev...
Parts of Speech and Poetry Have you ever written a poem in English? Some of you have written to us in recent weeks asking us about writing and sharing poems. When I was a teacher at a university, I taught my ESL students creative writing. We spent ti...
Grammar and Money Imagine that you want to talk about money or personal finance. What kinds of terms and structures should you use? In today's Everyday Grammar, we will explore how discussions about money connect with grammar. You will learn about im...
Where Do You Live? Imagine a person asking you about where you live. How do you respond? How do you give details or more information? In today's Everyday Grammar, we will explore ways to talk about where you live. You will learn about questions, answ...
Happily Ever After: Settings, Actions, and Lessons in Fairy Tales Recently, we discussed traditional stories called fairy tales. These stories are passed down through the generations. We learned that these tales take place at an inexact time in the p...
Using Definite Articles before Comparative Adjectives After the winter holidays, some of us may feel the need to exercise and get healthy. We may have been eating richer foods than usual at meals shared with friends and families. During the winter mo...
Talking about Art, Part 2 After releasing our recent report, Talking about Art, we received many wonderful messages from VOA Learning English fans around the world. In today's report, we will share some of those messages. We'll provide feedback and s...
Talking about Art Imagine a person asks you about your favorite piece of art. How do you answer? In today's Everyday Grammar, we will explore how you can talk about art and the reasons that you like it. Favorites Let us begin with a question. A perso...
Once Upon a Time... Have you ever read stories like Little Red Riding Hood, Cinderella, or the Frog Prince? These stories are called fairy tales. Although you might not have read them in English, you likely can find these magical stories in your own...
